Hannah Leone

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A 17-year-old driver was shot and critically wounded early Wednesday on the outbound Eisenhower Expressway near Wolf Road in Hillside, according to the Illinois State Police. Police said the teen was shot twice about 1:09 a.m. The victim exited the expressway after the shooting and flagged down...

An 88-year-old man was killed and his elderly wife was injured when a fire broke out in their apartment building in the Dunning neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side early Wednesday, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Crews responded to the five-story building in the 6400 block of West...

A 12-year-old boy peering out of a second-story window in the Englewood neighborhood was the first person shot in Chicago in 2019, Chicago police said Tuesday. The boy was shot in the hand shortly after 12:10 a.m. Tuesday in the 6500 block of South Union Avenue, police said. He was treated at St....

A 29-year-old man sidelined a New Year’s Eve robbery in Logan Square by shooting the two suspects he said tried to rob him, Chicago police said. Around 9:40 p.m. in the 2900 block of West Cortland Street, two male suspects with handguns got out of a silver Nissan and told the man they were robbing...

For the second year in a row, the number of homicides and shootings in Chicago dropped by double-digit percentages in 2018, though some neighborhoods on the West and South sides continue to bear the brunt of gun violence as they have for decades. Homicides dropped by 15 percent, shootings by 18...

All the family really knew was that there was a shooting and someone was taken to the hospital. They weren’t sure about the circumstances. They just heard the rumors and went. At the University of Chicago Medical Center, a woman tried to get inside the emergency entrance, believing her son might...

A man has been charged with attempted murder after police say he pushed another man onto the CTA Blue Line tracks at a Loop subway station over the weekend. Isiah Cirton, 30, is accused of pushing a 32-year-old man onto the southbound tracks of the Jackson stop in the 300 block of South Dearborn...